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For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Frankfurt/Main
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Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
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Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.
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If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.
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Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
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Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
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Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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Originality provokes originality.
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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
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What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
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Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
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There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
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Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.
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We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
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What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.
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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise, we harden.
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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
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